Mirror's Edge

by Sun Wu K0ng

Jaune Arc is a being that belongs to a family line of powerful huntsmen, all of whom possess extraordinary amounts of aura and a family semblance: mimicry. As such, he is able to imitate the semblances of other fighters. But what does this mean for Jaune's future?

1. Disclaimer

Disclaimer:

I'd like to clarify a few things before I begin this rewrite.

The original source material for this fanfiction is titled "Jaune's Video Diary" by fanfic author AngeloGene. While this piece of work may seem like another run of the mill harem, the main enticing component, at least to me, was the concept. It is because of the concept that a lot of the original is going to carry over to this reboot. Not everything though. If I didn't make it clear, the two major flaws of the original are that the harem is so largely ridiculous that you'll forget that the conduit is a bunch of girls acting like stalkers while stealing their crush's scroll, and that the story also suffers from a bad case of perfect-hero-creates-perfect-world. The beginning chapters are mildly interesting, what with him training and learning some new skills, but then the fic decays into Jaune and Friend Shenanigans, where Jaune becomes an automatic chick magnet and manages to instantly shows CRDL the error of their ways, then they play hokey-d*ckhead and blah-blah. There is no longer any conflict aside from which b*tch gets the oblivious stud. So those both won't carry over to such a degree. There's also a bit of a time discontinuity where the author tries to introduce the story halfway through the first year at Beacon but then shows characters having relief at a reassembled Penny and a reformed but still devious Neo, but Yang still has both arms, so... For clarity's sake, I'm going to make the setting very clear. I'm starting not to long into the series, only a couple months after initiation. Neo will still be part of the story but her affiliations with Roman won't have been discovered yet.

Another thing I'd like to clarify is the title. When I first came up with the name Mirror's Edge, I was unaware of the other medium bearing the same name. The video game Mirror's Edge concerns game mechanics pertaining to parkour stunts in order to evade pursuit from corrupt agents of the government. That said, while I am still keeping the name, I am not going to be drawing anything from the video game medium for this fic. This is a purely RWBY fanfic.